Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 20:37:01 +1100 (EST) From: Julian Assange <proff@suburbia.net> To: tom@sdf.com (Tom Samplonius) Cc: proff@suburbia.net, julian@whistle.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: virtual hosting with inetd Message-ID: <199611110937.UAA25288@suburbia.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.94.961111010311.22333C-100000@misery.sdf.com> from "Tom Samplonius" at Nov 11, 96 01:14:40 am
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> > o doesn't handle hostnames > > o doesn't handle multi-homed host names > > I don't think you want this. Hostname lookups for 200 hostnames could > take a while, especially if DNS is down. Imagine long delays when no > connections are accepted while re-loading the config file. If you are the virtual server for those sites, you are very likely to be the primary name server, and if not a secondary name server and if not that, then /etc/hosts ;) > > o everything has to be in the one file. administration nightmare. > > say you are running 200 virtual servers with 4 services each ^^^^^^^^^^ > > = around 6400 xinetd lines. and grep won't work on it. > > o uses bloated multi-line-per-service xinetd config style ;) > [..] > script could go do the DNS lookups. Also, an average xinetd config entry > is not even close to 32 lines (32*200=6400), in fact I don't think it > possible to have an entry that long. 4*8*200=6400 -- "Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies, The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C.S. Lewis, _God in the Dock_ +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+ |Julian Assange RSO | PO Box 2031 BARKER | Secret Analytic Guy Union | |proff@suburbia.net | VIC 3122 AUSTRALIA | finger for PGP key hash ID = | |proff@gnu.ai.mit.edu | FAX +61-3-98199066 | C7F81C2AA32D7D4E4D360A2ED2098E0D | +---------------------+--------------------+----------------------------------+
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